Carter Walker of Votebeat
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More than 4,000 PA voters had their eligibility to vote questioned over residency. They got a chance to fight back. -
Workers still aren’t allowed to start processing ballots before Election Day, but changes in staffing and technology have helped them pick up the pace. -
Thousands of challenges have been filed in 14 counties, many by right-wing activists, trying to get ballots disqualified, falsely claiming Pennsylvanians living abroad aren’t eligible. -
Two counties point to Field+Media Corps, a voter outreach firm whose work has been flagged before by Arizona authorities. -
A coalition of voting rights groups is pushing back against the challenges, calling them a “malicious attempt” to disenfranchise voters. -
What happens if your mail ballot is flagged for possible rejection? That depends on where you live in Pennsylvania. -
Voters who make a disqualifying mail ballot error are entitled to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day at a polling place and have it counted, per a new court ruling. -
An analysis shows that Allegheny County is much faster at processing mail ballots than Philadelphia, likely because of differences in equipment and staffing. -
The rejections mean that the rules for mail ballot voting will likely remain mostly unchanged for the Nov. 5 presidential election. -
Voting experts were encouraged by the poll’s finding that voter confidence is strongest at the county level, which is where elections are actually run in Pennsylvania.
